Christopher Borrelli

“Main Character Energy.” That’s what we call confidence today, that’s how we describe the self-centering of our lives in our personal narratives. As slang, “main character energy” was not one of the breakout phrases of 2024 — its popularity got […]

By now, you should be completely bonkers, sweaty with exhaustion, short on cash, driven to madness by the holidays. It’s freezing, the day becomes a colorless European art film at three in the afternoon, the approach of winter is feeling

Books, like socks, give themselves away behind holiday wrapping. Nothing more so than a coffee table book. Or a beloved classic in hardcover. I’m not saying giving these are bad ideas. I’m saying the surprise is the gift itself. Choose

The Author Clock, created in Chicago several years ago by a local engineer and finally arriving in stores this holiday season, has been forcing me to pause now and then, whenever I look up to see the time. Knowing the

There’s no shortage of art this fall that’ll remind you of famous people running for the most powerful offices in the world. And then there’s Federico Solmi’s “The Great Farce,” which recently opened at the Block Museum of Art at

Twenty years from now, Siri will be Kiki. Climate change will render breathing so dicey that the government will issue daily color-coded air-safety notices. Kate Middleton will be the Queen of England. And, if we can believe “Coronation,” at the

Theaster Gates stared hard at a room full of furniture. There were credenzas, chairs, desks, chests, a cube resembling an office refrigerator. Behind them, framed correspondence, photographs. Much of it came to him in 2010 after Johnson Publishing Co., home

Did you know there’s a very specific reason we have a fall book season? It’s not the only reason, but it’s the reason that set this cultural cycle in motion. Long story short: As New York and Philadelphia became hubs